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Position:Home>Books & Authors> Adults, do you still read any children's books?Question: Adults, do you still read any children's books!? I mean for your own pleasure, not because you're reading them to a child!.
If so, what books!? I still love Dr!. Suess's 500 Hats of Batholomew Cubbins (and many of his others) and Roald Dahl's Charlie books and his book of fairy tales!.Www@QuestionHome@Com Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: I still love Roald Dahl's children's book (I love his adult stories even more)!. I frequently read Oscar Wilde's fairy tales - "The Happy Prince" is the reason I wanted to learn to read!. You can read some here: http://wilde!.artpassions!.net/Www@QuestionHome@Com I still love and read children's books--old and familiar favorites as well as many new ones, aside from all my adult reading!. Children's books have some of the best creativity, imagination, and purely magical writing in literature, even when the subjects are realistic!. The Oz books, the Narnia series, Lewis Carroll's Alice stories, the wonderful novels and stories of E!. Nesbit and Edward Eager, Hans Christian Anderson's tales and the collected tales by the Brothers Grimm, Howard Pyle's tales of Pirates, Robin Hood and King Arthur, Mary Travers' books about Mary Poppins, Lucy Boston's stories of Greene Knowe, Susan Cooper's The Dark is Rising series, Treasure Island, Pinocchio, The Squire's Tales series by Gerald Morris, The Wind in the Willows and its sequels, James Thurber's The Thirteen Clocks, all are wonderful book journeys I never tire of taking!.Www@QuestionHome@Com Yes!. I still enjoy some of the books I enjoyed as a child, I like Anthony Buckeridge's Jennings series, 'A Traveller in time' by Alison Uttley, 'The Strange Affair of Adelaide Harris' by Leon Garfield, 'Daddy Long-Legs' by Jean Webster, 'The Midnight folk' by John Masefield, the choir school stories of William Mayne, and many others!. I also read some contemporary children's books from time to time, I enjoyed Harry Potter, and also Meg Cabot's books!.Www@QuestionHome@Com Whenever I visit my parents' house, I revisit the books they read to me as a child!. Dr!. Seuss always brings back old memories but others like 'The Jungle Book' and 'Black Beauty' are great as well!. Sadly, however, most of the time I neglect these classics and turn to the 'grown-up' books that I learned to love in college!.Www@QuestionHome@Com Well sometimes I do read to my nephews!. They are into chapter books!. When I get to one I like, I go buy it!. Some YA reading can be good!. That way you can see what kind of stuff kids are actually reading!. When I was growing up I read all of Christoper Pike booksWww@QuestionHome@Com Yeah, especially when I'm feeling nostalgic!. Dahl, but Fantastic Mr Fox or Matilda, or the BFG!. Been trying to recall what the pheasant-poaching one was for a few years - it was my sister's and I loved it!. Rosemary Sutcliffe - the Eagle of the Ninth series!. Mum was keen to educate us!. Henry Treece - Vikings!. As above!. Ah, good days!.Www@QuestionHome@Com Yes!. My favorite book as a child was "Little Bear," and I read it when I get stressed out!. I also still love "The Giving Tree" and "The Little Prince!."Www@QuestionHome@Com Not so much books, but I am happy to watch just about any Pixar movie for my own pleasure!.Www@QuestionHome@Com I read them because I help give an award for childrens and young adult science fiction!. And yes, I do enjoy them!.Www@QuestionHome@Com |